Life is irrational. We try to be rational, but our urges are irrational. Hence, we tolerate irrationality of life, but only to a point when tolerance or life is threatened.
This I take to be the foundations of dogmatism: the idea that your strong beliefs should also apply at any cost to other people as well. No, not necessarily.
We often get lost in little details and lose track of the big picture. We are too obsessed with being right and winning, that we forget about the essence of things. We judge too much, based on linguistic details of written rules, and we often lose our humanity.
We often get lost in little details and lose track of the big picture. We are too obsessed with being right and winning, that we forget about the essence of things. We judge too much, based on linguistic details of written rules, and we often lose our humanity.
This I take to be the foundations of dogmatism: the idea that your strong beliefs should also apply at any cost to other people as well. No, not necessarily.
Life is irrational. We try to be rational, but our urges are irrational. Hence, we tolerate irrationality of life, but only to a point when tolerance or life is threatened.
The impulse toward treating others as things, directly (in the form of slavery) and indirectly (when we view people as means to an end or as ways to get needs met), is one of the greatest sources of evil behavior.